A Monthly Journal, March 2000

April 2000
Letter to Congress Workers
Editorial
Cover Story
View Point
Report
Cartoon
Letters
Speech
Tribute
February Issue 2000
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COVER STORY

Victory of Secularism
For a nation of diverse cultural and religious faiths and traditions like India any thought to move it in one particular narrow exclusive direction is totally unacceptable. So, when the BJP made the first move lifting the ban on RSS and welcomed government employees to join Shakhas, the whole nation received a shock. Shock, because most citizens thought that since BJP is only one of the 22 partners in the NDA Coalition, it will not try to implement its own agenda. Shock, also because, the then NDA partners kept silent till the Congress party, enraged by the BJP, decision, declared a warb of flight this preposterous step. The Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, called a massive rally at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi to issue an ultimatum to the BJP ...

INTERVIEW
Manmohan Singh: 'Long on Promise, Short on Performance'
In an interview, the architect of the first generation of economic reforms, Dr. Manmohan Singh, says that objectives outlined in the budget are not backed by a coherant strategy......

TRIBUTE
Invitation to Death
An intimate account of the last days of Rajguru, Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev who sacrificed their lives in the cause of independence .....

VIEWPOINT
Signing Away Our Rights
By agreeing to open Indian markets to an invasion of foreign goods, the BJP has opted to follow the dictates of big business, says Jawid Laiq ....

STATE NEWS
Assembly gheraoed in Gujarat
Congress wins two seats in Rajasthan
Bellary seat retained by the Congress

REVIEW
Fulfilling 'Pseudo-secularist' Duty
It is beyond dispute that the Partition of India was the most painful incident in the history of the Indian subcontinent. The horrors of that period are firmly etched in the collective memory of those who managed to survive .....

RELIGION
Stirring Utterances
Purity, patience and preseverance are the three essentials to succcess and above all, love, says Swamy Vivekananda .....